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Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…would not support her, and instead tried to remove from the UK, forcing a plane ticket on her. The Out and Proud Diamond Group African LGBTI is mobilizing a petition campaign to stop her deportation to Uganda, which is reportedly scheduled for this Friday. UK: Bishop Opposes Church’s Marriage Ban; Debate Over ‘Conscience’ Exemption for Registrars Last week the Right Reverend Dr Alan Wilson, a Church of English bishop, spoke on behalf of same-sex…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…wers to abandon their faith. But then the season ends with him surviving a plane crash and apparently raising other passengers from the dead. (Cue season 2 chatter.) If Golshiri does indeed have superpowers but is also deceptive, he fits the profile of the Antichrist who will come before the world ends, or “the deceiving messiah” known as Al-Masih ad-Dajjal in Islamic traditions. The show’s depiction of Golshiri as a Russian operative qua Antichri…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y point of view, once ISIS crosses the borders, I will be taking the first plane to Istanbul. Everybody will try to leave. But a lot of the gay community can’t afford it. Once they are here we will be one of the targets because gay people are evil for them, so we should be killed. We have a lot of dating applications and websites so I think it is very easy to find gay people and therefore to target them.” Reid Smith writes that there are ISIS supp…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y batty man” whilst growing up as “pretty traumatic”. “Whether it was in a plane or a coffin, I knew I had to get out of Jamaica,” he said. United Nations: US Ambassador to UN Honored The Council for Global Equality honored U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.Samantha Power. Power’s remarks were reprinted by Huffington Post: I’d like to start my remarks by sharing a story of a young man named Subhi Nahas. Subhi, who is now 28 years old, was born in Idlib,…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…for more Weir: Bored World. The story of a mischievous, trans-dimensional plane of existence. Is this a god, or the story of sci-fi itself? Antihypoxiant. Here at The Cubit we’ve been tracking shifts in our cultural attitudes towards health, diet, and medicine. In “Antihypoxiant,” Weir pushes a fictional scientist to the limit of a certain kind of care. The Egg. By far Weir’s most popular story, “The Egg” has been translated into over 30 language…

After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity” at Ease With Violence

By Willie James Jennings

…the story of a father and son stranded together on an extremely dangerous planet, Earth. Long ago abandoned by humanity, this future Earth is now overrun with outsized predators, toxic plants, and wildly unstable weather. The ship that carried them has crash landed and the elder Smith’s character lies in the ship’s shattered hull with broken bones unable to move. From that captive position he charges his son with an almost impossible task: to tra…

Conservative Points in Pope’s Speech Include Liberal “Chasers”

By Patricia Miller

…ry act of returning issues like abortion and same-sex marriage to the same plane of concern as the environment, poverty and immigration. Francis has removed the anti-abortion trump card that allowed conservative Catholics and their allies to ignore most of the church’s social justice teaching on issues like immigration and poverty and still be assured they were “good Catholics.” He explicitly challenged the long-standing contention of the US Catho…

Santorum and Huckabee Question Authority

By Sarah Posner

…holic Church? In Santorum’s view, in interviews. And that interview on the plane failed to reflect a “core value of the faith and of the Catholic Church,” that people “should be fruitful and multiply.” (As Patti Miller points out here, what Francis said completely consistent with the encyclical Humanae Vitae promotion of “responsible parenthood,” while still deeming birth control “to be absolutely excluded as lawful means of regulating the number…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…n 1960, and who eventually taught Marley all he knew, disembarked from the plane with Selassie, and Planno seemed as surprised as the others in attendance when His Imperial Majesty refused to walk down the red carpet rolled out for his arrival. To this day, Rastas mark the Elect of God’s act of humility with an annual ritual, Grounation Day, and Tarrus Riley’s tuneful homage to this auspicious visit, set over a Nyabinghi drum pattern (three drums…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cide. “I knew I had to leave my home country – whether in a coffin or on a plane,” he writes. He describes having been invited to church by an office colleague and getting “saved.” The church was called a clap-hands congregation, meaning charismatic, except it was full of upper-middle-class folk, and a cool pastor who drove a sports car. One Wednesday night, while Pastor was telling us that blessings were five miles upstream so we should, like Eno…